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I was slightly reluctant to post the build of my 9 here as my project will be moving at a vastly slower pace to some of the other builds here due to work commitments and finances!
A bit of background to the build.
I am a self confessed Honda nut and have been for years (even before I passed my driving test all of those years ago). Over the last 12 years I have had quite a few Hondas including a 98 EK4 that was absolutely mint and totally standard as well as a 89 EF8 CRX that was in storage for 7 years of the 10 I owned it for. In that time I had amassed a shedload of parts for it but when the wife and I decided to buy a bigger house I posted everything for sale on the CRX forum, put the money toward the new house, purchased a sensible day to day car and left the scene for a few years. It wasn't until I went to Malta last year and whilst visiting relatives I was taken out in an ITR powered EG Civic, I got bitten by the bug yet again.
I trawled the net on the hotel computers looking for an EK9 rolling chassis as finances wouldn't stretch to a complete car. I was very impulsive and ended up purchasing a rolling chassis from Jap Performance Parts without even seeing it in person. Now in hindsight I probably paid over the odds for it considering it was a CAT D fire damaged car, but at that time I couldn't find anything else for sale in my price bracket and I guess I quite like the thought of bringing a car back from the dead.
Anyway no time to dwell on it now! I have got my own 9, I am happy and thats all that matters.
As soon as I was back from Malta, I hired a trailer and drove to Crawley to pick up my new toy! Below are photos from Jap Performance Parts prior to them stripping the car ready for my collection.
The car itself is a CW 97 pre facelift model. When I collected the car, the agreement was that it wouldn't have any wheels (apart from space savers), no carpet or seats, no speedo cluster, no front wings (fenders), no headlights or tail lights, no bumpers, grill, rear wing or lips, no side skirts and no bonnet (hood). I also didnt want the B16B or transmission as I already had plans to put a B18 into it.
I had already decided I wanted to 'face lift' the 9 and even though finances were tight, didn't see the point in purchasing all of those removed parts only to replace them at a later date.
As the car would be pieced together eventually with parts from other broken cars I thought it would be pretty apt to name it Frankenstein!
The car at home.
Below are photos of the car back at my house. It looks in a very sorry state doesn't it?
A bit of background to the build.
I am a self confessed Honda nut and have been for years (even before I passed my driving test all of those years ago). Over the last 12 years I have had quite a few Hondas including a 98 EK4 that was absolutely mint and totally standard as well as a 89 EF8 CRX that was in storage for 7 years of the 10 I owned it for. In that time I had amassed a shedload of parts for it but when the wife and I decided to buy a bigger house I posted everything for sale on the CRX forum, put the money toward the new house, purchased a sensible day to day car and left the scene for a few years. It wasn't until I went to Malta last year and whilst visiting relatives I was taken out in an ITR powered EG Civic, I got bitten by the bug yet again.
I trawled the net on the hotel computers looking for an EK9 rolling chassis as finances wouldn't stretch to a complete car. I was very impulsive and ended up purchasing a rolling chassis from Jap Performance Parts without even seeing it in person. Now in hindsight I probably paid over the odds for it considering it was a CAT D fire damaged car, but at that time I couldn't find anything else for sale in my price bracket and I guess I quite like the thought of bringing a car back from the dead.
Anyway no time to dwell on it now! I have got my own 9, I am happy and thats all that matters.
As soon as I was back from Malta, I hired a trailer and drove to Crawley to pick up my new toy! Below are photos from Jap Performance Parts prior to them stripping the car ready for my collection.
The car itself is a CW 97 pre facelift model. When I collected the car, the agreement was that it wouldn't have any wheels (apart from space savers), no carpet or seats, no speedo cluster, no front wings (fenders), no headlights or tail lights, no bumpers, grill, rear wing or lips, no side skirts and no bonnet (hood). I also didnt want the B16B or transmission as I already had plans to put a B18 into it.
I had already decided I wanted to 'face lift' the 9 and even though finances were tight, didn't see the point in purchasing all of those removed parts only to replace them at a later date.
As the car would be pieced together eventually with parts from other broken cars I thought it would be pretty apt to name it Frankenstein!
The car at home.
Below are photos of the car back at my house. It looks in a very sorry state doesn't it?
